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Word: fronts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter-men have been determined and insignia awarded, marking the virtual close of the football season, athletics have again been forcibly subordinated in the daily papers to the more important topics of current events. Once more Mr. Hoover and the stock market have received due prominence on the front page; and the gestures of the Fascistic are no longer overshadowed by startling gridiron predictions. On the other hand, this is a period of unwarranted speculation on the part of sports writers. To fill their depicted columns, they fabricate grotesque stories of judicious phenomena; pictures of superhuman undertakings receive the appropriate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPLETED COLUMNS | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

Crowded streets echo "We want war!" Six thousand youths parade and shriek "Death to the enemy!" The Government incarnate, the very front of the people's Jove, places its hand in its waistcoat and replies patriotically "If war is necessary we will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SECOND HORSEMAN | 12/11/1928 | See Source »

...large female rat crawled into the back seat of a car belonging to one Mike Scaffano. There she built her nest and gave birth to a litter of small rats. Last week Mike Scaffano drove his car into the middle of Burlington; perturbed, the rat crawled into the front seat, and up the trouser leg of Mike Scaffano. Dismayed, frightened, severely bitten, Mike Scaffano drove his car into a telegraph pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains that now creep slowly onward with the aid of two engines in front and a third in the rear. It will go into commission about the first of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Locomotives | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blair-Rockefeller | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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